Tech Talks

December 13th-15th, 2017 - Digital Valley (Vizag)

From Blockchain to DevOps, Artificial Intelligence to Cloud Applications - come to the city of destiny to explore the future of technology. Digital Summit 2017 gives you a chance to see the future of the world up-close,
while also providing you the best exposure about how you can be a part of this revolution. Explore career opportunities, interact with expert speakers, check our cool demos and work on hands-on labs - all at Tech Talks @ Digital Summit 2017! Register right away and make your way to Vizag - the future is changing and we want you to be a part of it.

Event Schedule

Event

Being hosted in Visakhapatnam, the inaugural will be held on Dec 13th. The event was held at multiple venues in Vizag and is packed with over 3000 attendees across technical talks, executive meetings, job fairs, hackathons, celebrations and many more.

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08:00am - 10:00am | Port Stadium

Badge Pickup

Welcome to the largest IT Summit in AP, pick up your badge and enter the world of digital transformation

10:00am - 10:30am | Port Stadium

Digital Summit '17 Launch

Digital Summit 2017 is a week long extravaganza being conducted from December 13th - 17th, 2017 in the city of destiny, Visakhapatnam. Through technical talks, hackathons and job fairs - this event helps the students to get a great exposure towards technology and career opportunities.

10:30am - 12:00pm | Port Stadium

Hear from our Guests

Let's dive into the world of future technologies through this summit. Our speakers will make you understand the future of technology with some interesting keynote sessions. Also get to interact with the speakers and explore more about trending technologies.

Ganta Srinivasa Rao Human Resource Development

M.T.Krishna Babu Visakhapatnam Port Trust(VPT)

V.Uma Maheswara Rao Andhra University

Prasad Lokam Miracle Software Systems,Inc.

Pravin Kumar District Collector

Dr.P S Avadhani Andhra University

Subba RaoAPIIC

Tirumala Rao Chamalla APEITA

G.Nageswara Rao Andhra University

12:00pm - 02:00pm | Port Stadium

Lunch Break

Grab a bite and take a nap, digest all the information because the day ain't over yet!

02:00pm - 02:15pm | Port Stadium

Chanakya Lokam | Director - Miracle Innovation Labs

Welcome to Digital Summit 2017

Lets kick this off! Technology has become a key driver for business, and the focus of Digital Summit is to enable the talent pool of Andhra Pradesh so that you are better prepared for your careers. Together we can make Vizag as the Digital Valley!

02:15pm - 02:45pm | Port Stadium

Dr. Gopal Pingali | Distinguished Engineer and VP - GTS Labs (IBM)

Your Future : How Cognitive and Cloud are transforming our Lives

With advancements in neural networks and computing power in the cloud, the onus is now on developers like you to build solutions that are intelligent, connected and personalized. Listen to Dr. Gopal Pingali as he talks more about how these technologies are transforming the future that we live in.

02:45pm - 03:00pm | Port Stadium

Pothu Venkata Dinesh | Founder, CEO, & Educator (Prakriya Academy)

Prakriya Academy - The journey of a first time entrepreneur

So, you want to be an entrepreneur - but what does the start up journey hold for you? Entreprenuership is at an all time high in India and the startup ecosystem continues to grow at a inspiring pace. In this session, you will get a glimpse of mistakes and obstacles faced by a youngster who wanted to fulfill his dream by starting a company. Hear more about the story behind Prakriya Academy.

03:00pm - 03:15pm | Port Stadium

Prasad Lokam | CEO and President (Miracle Software Systems)

Miracle, AP Cloud, and Vizag - The Digital Valley

The visionary behind Miracle, AP Cloud and Digital Summit - hear more from Prasad himself as he speaks about his dream for Vizag, what Miracle is doing to grow the valley and what their plans are for 2018 and beyond.

Pi DataCenters runs Asia's Largest Uptime Institute TIER IV Certified Data Center right here in Amravati, Andhra Pradesh. Come and hear the brains behind their enterprise cloud platform, Sunder Muthevi, as he speaks about the role of Artificial Intelligence in a Software Defined Datacenter and what the future data center trend are.

03:30pm - 04:00pm | Port Stadium

Ravi Eswarapu | President (ITAAP) - Moderator

Panel - Effect of Digital Transformation on Vizag and Students

Digital Transformation is changing the way enterprises work, industries operate and people live their lives. So what does this all mean for a budding entrepreneur, a student (or) just common man. Join us as our panelists discuss the nuances of digital technologies and how they are disrupting every sphere of life.

Prasad Lokam Miracle Software Systems

Dr. P S Avadhani Andhra University

Abhi Deshmukh Watson Talent, IBM

Subhasha Ranjan NVIDIA Corporation

04:00pm - 04:15pm | Port Stadium

Chanakya Lokam | Director - Miracle Innovation Labs

The Bot Universe - What, How and Why

Chat Bots are the new UI and IoT seems to be popping up everywhere! Listen to Chanakya as he shows off some pretty cool demos while also discussing more about how you can start your journey towards building smart, connected Solutions.

04:15pm - 04:35pm | Port Stadium

Ujwal Surampalli | President (InterviewBuddy)

Should I startup or take up a job - 2017's greatest dilemma

The biggest question a soon to be graduate student faces now is - Shall I startup or take up a job or pursue graduate studies. This session is aimed at disseminating some of the first-hand experiences of having tasted all the three fields - starting up, pursuing higher studies & working at India's biggest automotive plant (Ashok Leyland) and giving a sense of direction/purpose to a student. The session would briefly touch up on the present startup scenario in AP and especially Vizag.

04:35pm - 05:05pm | Port Stadium

Satyendra Kumar Pasalapudi | President (AIOUG)

Exploring Student Career Paths with Cloud as the new normal

The cloud is the new normal. The cloud industry continues to grow at an amazing pace and organizations of all sizes continue to migrate to the cloud to take advantage of its economics. Cloud has redefined the way we code and do business. It has also eased the adoption of new technologies such as cognitive, IoT and big data and is helping organizations deliver faster. This session will talk about the various career paths and how you can become a cloud professional with the right skills.

05:05pm - 05:25pm | Port Stadium

Dheeraj Kota | Co- Founder (Startup Gurukul)

Defining the future, as a Student - The Startup Way

Facebook, Google,Dropbox and many more startups started during college. It's not just a coincidence. There is a reason, students are full of energy. Most tech products need investment only in form of sweat and Brain, not much financial investment. Let's talk about building a startup as a student. Right from how to get ideas, until how to launch and also talk about the case we fail and how this failed experience can also be super valuable in your career during Placement, MBA, MS and Civils Prep.

05:30pm - 07:30pm | Port Stadium

Hungama

After all that learning, lets see what you've got on the dance floor - come along and celebrate the night with us at Hungama!

09:00am - 10:00am | Miracle Valley

Registrations

Welcome to the largest IT Summit in AP, pick up your badge and enter the world of digital transformation

10:00am - 05:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Dheeraj Kota | Co - Founder Startup Gurukul

Hands On - From Zero To Cloud with React and Firebase

Come and learn the Gurukul way! Go from Zero to Cloud using the hottest library from Facebook, React and Firebase as the database from Google. Get your hands dirty on what Silicon Valley is using. Go from basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to React, building responsive components using Firebase as database and publish what you built on cloud. To make the tinkering with these advanced tech concepts effective, this will be following a Web Gurukul's Assisted Learning Methodology to mentor you individually while you experiment.

10:00am - 11:00am | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Aditya Chinni | Manager - Innovation Labs

Introduction to IoT and Industry 4.0 Use Cases

So what exactly is the Internet of Things and how does it relate to Industry 4.0? In this session, you will learn more about how industrial IoT is transforming manufacturing along with a live demo of Machinery Management built on IBM Watson IoT. You will also understand what it takes to build an IoT Solution and what components are required.

10:00am - 11:00am | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Ajay Alubelli | Lead Researcher - Mobility

Code Once Run Everywhere - Hybrid Apps with Ionic

In this session, we will be introducing you to the Ionic framework, a hybrid mobile application platform, and how hybrid mobile applications are different from native mobile application development. Learn more about tools like Ionic Framework and Cordova that can help you rapidly build and deploy to multiple platforms.

Everybody is talking about chat bots nowadays! In this hands on lab you will be introduced to Microsoft's Bot Framework and will be taken through a guided lab to build a Skype based chat bot with the help of the Bot Builder Node JS SDK and also Microsoft LUIS.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Node Red, IBM Watson IoT, IBM Bluemix | Laptop Required

Connecting IoT Devices to Watson IoT with Node Red

IoT is taking over the world, and the future looks smart and connected. In this hands-on lab you will go through the process of understand the anatomy of an IoT solution by connecting a simulator to the Watson IoT Platform and will then build a Node Red based dashboard as well.

11:00am - 11:30am | Miracle Valley

Snacks Break

Grab a bite and take a nap, digest all the information because the day ain't over yet!

11:30am - 12:30pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Mayur Tendulkar | Program Manager (Microsoft)

Native iOS and Android Development in C#

Xamarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Windows mobile app developers overnight. In this session, you will learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. This session will also give you the tools to determine how much existing C# code can go mobile to iOS and Android, using existing .NET code, plus help you learn to create the architecture necessary to support maximum code sharing and reuse.

11:30am - 12:30pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Sudharshan Govindan | Developer Advocate (IBM)

Deep Dive into IBM Cloud PaaS (Node JS and Java)

IBM Cloud Foundry includes Runtimes for Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Swift and Go; plus, Cloud Foundry community build packs are also available. Combined with DevOps services, the application runtimes enable a Delivery pipeline that automates much of the iterative development process. In this session you will learn more about how you can continuously deliver applications by developing on IBM Cloud's Cloud Foundry Runtimes and extend you apps with services as well.

12:30pm - 01:30pm | Miracle Valley

Lunch Break

Grab a bite and take a nap, digest all the information because the day ain't over yet!

01:30pm - 02:30pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Krishnachytanya Ayyagari | Technical Program Manager (Google)

TensorFlow 101 - Open Source Machine Learning

What if you could forecast sales demand (or) predict machine failure? In this session you will learn more about how to get started on TensorFlow, which is a framework for developers to build computational graphs, usually used for machine learning.

See how AWS has not only defined and pioneered what we call today as cloud computing but get a first hand look at the AWS platform and various disruptive services that can help build innovative products and applications faster. Through this session learn how cloud computing can help enable innovative ideas.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Ionic Framework, Angular JS | Laptop Required

Your First Hybrid Mobile App with Ionic Framework

Have you ever built a mobile app? If not, then this is the perfect hands on lab for you to be able to learn the art of Hybrid Mobile App Development. In this guided lab you will be able to understand how to build and view a mobile app with the Ionic Framework.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Node JS, IBM Bluemix, Cloud Foundry CLI | Laptop Required

Building a Cloud Application on IBM Bluemix(PaaS)

The cloud allows you to quickly build, deploy and scale your applications. In this hands-on labs session you will go through a guided lab in which you will build your own Node JS based web page and deploy it on to IBM BluemiPaaS) through the Cloud Foundry CLI.

02:30pm - 02:45pm | Miracle Valley

Break Time

Stretch your legs, interact with the experts and check some of the cool demos - don't forget to refresh your mind!

02:45pm - 03:45pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Mayur Tendulkar | Program Manager (Microsoft)

Building Mobile Apps - There is a service for that!

Unless it is a static app, every mobile app needs services. For example, mobile apps require services to authenticate user, store and retrieve data, send notifications or report crashes. Microsoft Azure provides services for you which can be used to add features and intelligence. Join us to understand various Microsoft Azure services which can be used in mobile apps.

02:45pm - 03:45pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Yuktesh Chintamadaka | Developer Advocate (IBM)

Decoding Internet of Things using Watson IoT platform

How do you build smart, connected solutions centered around IoT? In this session you will get an introduction to IoT and discuss few use cases. Also introduce Node-red platform, a wiring tool helps in developing IoT applications rapidly. Explore Node-red platform using basic input output nodes and take them through Watson IoT platform nodes and perform basic demos.

Bots are the new UI, the conversational UI. In this hands on lab you will be introduced to bot building basics and will be taken through a guided lab to build a Facebook Messenger Bot with Google's Dialogflow and Firebase.

One of the most common things needed for mobile apps is sign in and registration. In this hands-on lab you will be guided to build a sample mobile application that provides both authentication and registration with Firebase as the backend.

03:45pm - 04:00pm | Miracle Valley

Break Time

Stretch your legs, interact with the experts and check some of the cool demos - don't forget to refresh your mind!

04:00pm - 05:00pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Venkata Nagesh | Principal Architect (Pi DATACENTERS)

Building and Orchestrating Containerized Applications on the Cloud

The goal of infrastructure is to run your applications, and as it advances it is looking to make the life of developers easier. In this session you will learn more about containers, what orchestration means and how it helps in running next generation digital workloads such as mobile, analytics and more. You will hear and see more about Harbour1 and how you can integrate it with your DevOps life cycles.

04:00pm - 05:00pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Mounika Korrakuti | Lead Researcher - Cloud and DevOps

Exploring a Developer's Journey Through DevOps

Why do developers care about operations? In this session learn more about DevOps and what the role of developers is. Understand enterprise terms such as Build, Test and Deploy along with CICD. Learn how building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins, Git and Maven can help make your java deployments faster and easier.

05:30pm - 07:30pm | Miracle Valley

Hungama

After all that learning, lets see what you've got on the dance floor - come along and celebrate the night with us at Hungama!

09:00am - 10:00am | Miracle Valley

Registrations

Welcome to the largest IT Summit in AP, pick up your badge and enter the world of digital transformation

10:00am - 05:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Dheeraj Kota | Co - Founder Startup Gurukul

Hands On - From Zero To Cloud with React and Firebase

Come and learn the Gurukul way! Go from Zero to Cloud using the hottest library from Facebook, React and Firebase as the database from Google. Get your hands dirty on what Silicon Valley is using. Go from basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to React, building responsive components using Firebase as database and publish what you built on cloud. To make the tinkering with these advanced tech concepts effective, this will be following a Web Gurukul's Assisted Learning Methodology to mentor you individually while you experiment.

10:00am - 11:00am | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Srikanth Doddi | CS Student (Sri Vasavi Engineering College)

What are chat bots and how do you build them ?

What are chat bots? How do we build them? Come and join us as we give you an insight into cognitive services and natural language processing for chat bots. You will learn more about the challenges faced by students when building bots and interesting solutions to overcome those. Also catch a live demo of building bots on the cloud!

10:00am - 11:00am | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Sudharshan Govindan | Developer Advocate (IBM)

Chat Bots with Watson Conversation and Voice Gateway

This session will cover the new IBM Voice Gateway product which introduces a next generation IVR system that is conversational and built on IBM Watson cognitive services. It can also transcribe calls in real time to enable agent assist type applications. IBM Voice Gateway uses capabilities like the Watson Conversation service, Speech To Text and Text To Speech and is built on cloud native principles.

One of the most common things needed for mobile apps is sign in and registration. In this hands-on lab you will be guided to build a sample mobile application that provides both authentication and registration with Firebase as the backend.

Bots are the new UI, the conversational UI. In this hands on lab you will be introduced to bot building basics and will be taken through a guided lab to build a Facebook Messenger Bot with Google's Dialogflow and Firebase.

11:00am - 11:30am | Miracle Valley

Snacks Break

Grab a bite and take a nap, digest all the information because the day ain't over yet!

11:30am - 12:30pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Krishnachytanya Ayyagari | Technical Program Manager (Google)

Google Cloud Platform - Services overview and ML APIs

In this session, you will learn about various services in Google Cloud Platform and understand in depth about Machine Learning APIs that are part of Google Cloud. These APIs can be used by developers to convert their unstructured data to semi or structured data, that can be used in turn for their scenarios.

Understand what is serverless, the evolution and how serverless architecture allows you to build and run applications and services without needing to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure. In this track, you will learn how to build function-rich serverless architectures using the AWS Serverless Stack (API Gateway, Lambda, Greengrass, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB). The range of applications demoed will include real-time data processing systems, mobile back-ends and web applications.

12:30pm - 01:30pm | Miracle Valley

Lunch Break

Grab a bite and take a nap, digest all the information because the day ain't over yet!

01:30pm - 02:30pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Mounika Chirukuri | Lead Researcher - Cognitive and Data

Big Data 101 - Understanding Technologies and Usecases

With the boom of social media and mobile users are generating more and more data than ever. This gives us a chance to analyse and personalize through data driven decisions. Learn more about technologies in the big data ecosystem, while learning about use cases as well.

01:30pm - 02:30pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Surya Viswanath Perala | Student (Vignan Engineering College)

ML 101 - Applying Machine Learning in our daily life

What is Machine Learning and how can you implement it in your day to day life? In this session, we will be explaining how you can use R for Data Processing and some basics around python along with a live demo combining all of them to make an enterprise class application.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Ionic Framework, Angular JS | Laptop Required

Your First Hybrid Mobile App with Ionic Framework

Have you ever built a mobile app? If not, then this is the perfect hands on lab for you to be able to learn the art of Hybrid Mobile App Development. In this guided lab you will be able to understand how to build and view a mobile app with the Ionic Framework.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Node JS, IBM Bluemix, Cloud Foundry CLI | Laptop Required

Building a Cloud Application on IBM Bluemix(PaaS)

The cloud allows you to quickly build, deploy and scale your applications. In this hands-on labs session you will go through a guided lab in which you will build your own Node JS based web page and deploy it on to IBM Bluemix (PaaS) through the Cloud Foundry CLI.

02:30pm - 02:45pm | Miracle Valley

Break Time

Stretch your legs, interact with the experts and check some of the cool demos - don't forget to refresh your mind!

02:45pm - 03:45pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Archit Gupta | Sr. Researcher - Cognitive

Building a Chat Bot with Microsoft Bot Framework

In today's world, Bots are becoming new and effective entities for delivering new age digital experiences. Microsoft's Bot Framework provides developers with a easy SDK and platform to build and connect bots to various channels like Skype and Messenger. Learn how you can build your first bot on Microsoft's Bot Framework at Digital Summit!

02:45pm - 03:45pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Kunal Chowdhury | Microsoft MVP

Building cloud enabled application using Azure

In this session, you will learn about Azure and will be taken through building a web application and hosting it on an Azure server. The session will also cover Azure VMs and Azure database in a nutshell, giving you the base to jump start cloud app development.

Everybody is talking about chat bots nowadays! In this hands on lab you will be introduced to Microsoft�s Bot Framework and will be taken through a guided lab to build a Skype based chat bot with the help of the Bot Builder Node JS SDK and also Microsoft LUIS.

10:00am - 10:00pm | Level #1, Miracle Valley

Node Red, IBM Watson IoT, IBM Bluemix | Laptop Required

Connecting IoT Devices to Watson IoT with Node Red

IoT is taking over the world, and the future looks smart and connected. In this hands-on lab you will go through the process of understand the anatomy of an IoT solution by connecting a simulator to the Watson IoT Platform and will then build a Node Red based dashboard as well.

03:45pm - 04:00pm | Miracle Valley

Break Time

Stretch your legs, interact with the experts and check some of the cool demos - don't forget to refresh your mind!

04:00pm - 05:00pm | Hall #1, Miracle Valley

Sudheer Polavarapu | VP – Product Management

Blockchain 101 – Navigating the Blockchain Hype

This session will provide you with a better understanding of Blockchain, its current state, the real threats and opportunities that this disruptive technology poses to various industries, especially in energy and utilities, and how organisations can navigate through the hype and find real opportunities.

04:00pm - 05:00pm | Hall #2, Miracle Valley

Udaya Nandipati | Lead Researcher - Cognitive

Building a Chat Bot with IBM Watson Conversation

Want to create your own virtual assistant? Learn more about what it takes to build chat bots and what some possible use cases might be. In this session, we will let you know how you can build your own chat bot with the Watson Conversation Service on IBM Bluemix in a matter of minutes.

05:30pm - 07:30pm | Miracle Valley

Hungama

After all that learning, lets see what you've got on the dance floor - come along and celebrate the night with us at Hungama!

Prasad Lokam

CEO, President, Founder and Visionary - Prasad knows the ins and outs of technology and the industry as well. Being the founder of a succesful 24 year old global IT firm, he still remains equally passionate towards next generation technology. Hailing from Visakhapatnam, his dream is to enable the students of Andhra Pradesh and give back to the state by creating massive technology employement.

CEO and President

Miracle Software Systems,Inc.

Krishnachytanya Ayyagari

KC is a technical program manager at Google and takes care of the startup ecosystem in India. Having previously worked at Microsoft, IBM, Thomson Reuters - he has over 10 years of industry experience and is on a mission to help startups become successful on GCP. A graduate from BITS Pilani and a trained architect, he has been active in the space of cloud computing for over 8 years.

Technical Program Manager

Google

Mounika Chirukuri

When it comes to data, bots and analytics, Mounika is the one that you want to talk to. Leading the Data, Cognitive and Analytics wing within Miracle's Innovation Labs - her team works on implementing predictive models, voice based chat bots and analytic dashboards. She loves writing articles and enabling tech newbies on digital technologies.

Lead Researcher - Cognitive and Data

Miracle's Innovation Labs

Mounika Korrakuti

Need help pushing an app to the cloud? Even better - want to automate the deployment? Mounika heads up the Cloud and DevOps unit within Miracle's Innovation Labs and has exposure to all the major clouds including GCP, AWS, Bluemix and Azure. She is a VMWare Certified Professional who is passionate about learning new technologies and taking up new challenges !

Lead Researcher - Cloud and DevOps

Miracle's Innovation Labs

Ajay Alubelli

An IOS Apps expert, Ajay leads the next generation application development at Miracle's Innovation Labs which involves creating amazing applications with MEAN, Ionic, Firebase, Swift, Android and more. He is very passionate about creating well-crafted code, teaching others and writing code as a hobby. If you have a question around mobile apps, catch Ajay during the event.

Lead Researcher - Mobility

Miracle's Innovation Labs

Chanakya Lokam

Bot Developer, Tech Enthusiast, Speaker and Innovator - Chanakya and his team of digital rebels build cool things every day, from Help Desk Bots to Smart Water Meters! A speaker at multiple global conferences and the head for innovation at Miracle, he helps drive the team's thoughts and ideas around technologies like Cognitive, IoT, Cloud, DevOps and more! Catch up with him at the event to speak more about bots on Google Home (or) chit chat about the latest technologies.

Director - Innovation Labs

Miracle Software Systems, Inc.

Udaya Nandipati

An expert in cognitive solutions, Udaya and her team have been building smart applications that can analyze writing, provide personality insights and detect positive sentiment. She loves building chat bots and has a strong team focussed on major bot frameworks like Microsoft Bot Framework, IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow and others. She has taught hundreds of students over the past few years and was a mentor during MEANHack '16.

Lead Researcher - Cognitive

Miracle's Innovation Labs

Aditya Chinni

An IoT enthusiast and tech geek, Aditya manages all activities that happen within Miracle's Innovation Labs. Based out of Vizag, Andhra Pradesh he loves working on new age solutions within the space of Connected Solutions and has been involved in various implementations such as Smart Tank Monitoring and Beacon based asset management.

Manager - Innovation Labs

Miracle Software Systems, Inc.

Pothu Venkata Dinesh

Dinesh is a social entrepreneur working towards a vision of healthy learning environments. He pursued his Masters in Computer Systems Engineering from London and worked as Corporate IT Trainer for 5 years. Interact with him and learn more about his journey around building Prakriya Academy!

Founder, CEO & Educator

Prakriya Academy

Ujwal Surampalli

Chief @InterviewBuddy, Graduate Student @HSRW, Germany, Outstanding Student of the Batch @AU, Bronze Awardee @IIA, Interned @Ashok Leyland @Reliance. Ujwal is the founder of InterviewBuddy. He takes care of business development & marketing activities. Though Ujwal comes from a Mechanical engineering background, his prior experience in blogging, designing, coding - writing small snippets & scripts for his blogs as a hobby has proved helpful in developing the now patent-pending InterviewBuddy platform from scratch. He took a sabbatical from his master's degree program in Germany to start InterviewBuddy. Apart from the serious stuff, Ujwal is a die-cast car collector, DIY enthusiast and is an expert in creating 3D realistic papercraft models.

President

InterviewBuddy

Satyendra Kumar Pasalapudi

An Oracle ACE Director and MBA graduate with 18+ years of diversified international experience in the IT industry that spans across multiple continents. He is an accomplished infrastructure and database professional, author and speaker with the right blend of business and technology skills. He has helped bootstrap various strategic business units in Cloud, Big Data and more during his career. He is also the Co-Founder and President of the All India Oracle Users Group(AIOUG) and is a frequent speaker at many Oracle events including Oracle Open World.

President

AIOUG

Sunder Muthevi

Working with companies like IBM, HP and EMC - Sunder has over 24 years of experience across industries in Product Strategy Management around IT Infrastructure, Datacenter Technologies, Cloud and Automation. As the CTO of Pi Data Centers, he is the master mind behind Harbour1, the enterprise cloud platform of Pi Data Centers. Pi runs Asia's Largest Uptime Institute TIER IV Certified Data Center right here in Andhra Pradesh. Sunder is a MS graduate in Information Science, from Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA and holds a BE from RVCE Bangalore, India.

Chief Technology Officer

Pi DATACENTERS

Ravi Eswarapu

With over 20 years of consulting and operational experience in set up of Global Delivery Centers, Design and Implementation of Tier II Strategy and Low Costs Delivery Models, Ravi is a true pioneer in the IT space. He has executed several full life cycle implementations of IT enabled Business Process Re-engineering projects. He is a Vice President at Pena4 Tech Solutions and the President of ITAAP.

President

ITAAP

Dr. P S Avadhani

Professor, Principal, Chairman, Faculty of Engg. A.U College of Engg, Andhra University - Dr. Avadhani has been a pillar of the Computer Science scene in Visakhapatnam. M.Tech and Ph.D from IIT Kanpur, he has received multiple prestigious awards such as Best Teacher, Best Researcher and Best Academician including the Charter Patron Award in 2010 from CSI.

Principal

Andhra University

Subhasha Ranjan

A B2B/Integration Architect at NVIDIA Corporation, Subasha is part of a team that maintains one the largest SAP implementations. He has previously worked on multiple projects in the space of integration and is also the co-founder of ToyMahal and A.K.Designs. He loves exploring things and resolving challenges. In his view, chasing ideas is important to stay in front of this hi-tech world.

Integration Architect

NVIDIA Corporation

Abhi Deshmukh

Abhi has the professional experience of managing a Business (topline and bottomline), is a Sales Leader, Engineering Manager, Evangelist, Development Manager and a Coach. He is currently working on AI, Cognitive and teaching Watson how to recruit great people while nurturing and delivering high performance teams for IBM.

Program Director

Watson Talent, IBM

Dr. Gopal Pingali

An IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of the Global Technology Services Labs(GTS Labs) at IBM, Dr. Gopal Pingali is a technology leader. In his worldwide leadership role he is responsible for driving cognitive and hybrid cloud solutions for clients around the world. His teams help organizations achieve IT as a Service through development of automation, analytics and cognitive. He also established the IBM Cloud Center of Excellence in 2009.

Distinguished Engineer and VP - GTS Labs

IBM

Dheeraj Kota

Worked in Silicon Valley for Cisco Systems. The drive and energy in Silicon Valley to churn out innovation made him realize there is more we can do in India than the US. Moved back in 2014 and have been building products on Deep Learning, Blockchain, IOT & React.
Small tidbit: Speaker Resume is on WikiLeaks and he himself is not sure how.

Co - Founder

Startup Gurukul

Archit Gupta

Bot Developer, quick Learner - Archit Gupta is a Senior Cognitive Researcher at Miracle's Innovation Labs. He has extensive experience working on various Natural Language Processing(NLP) engines like Microsoft LUIS, IBM Watson and Kore.ai for creating chat bots in various verticals. His passion towards chat bots led him to design various unique solutions in developing different bots for Miracle.

Sr. Researcher - Cognitive

Miracle's Innovation Labs

Srikanth Doddi

Founder of the technical club at Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Srikanth is a technology lover who is passionate on spreading and teaching anything that surrounds cognitive computing. Also a member of the IQAC(Internal Quality Assurance Cell) at his college, he is an able student and bot developer who loves diving into new technology.

CS Student

Sri Vasavi Engineering College

Rajanikanth Chilakapati

Currently a Senior AWS Solutions Architect for Amazon Internet Services, Raj comes with over 17 years of experience across industries such as Banking and Finance and Healthcare, while remaining a developer at heart! Having worked at firms like Baxter, Perot Systems, CA Technologies and others - he strongly believes that technology is a means but not an end, and that technology can enable us to build and achieve our end goals.

Sr. Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services

Sudheer Polavarapu

Sudheer is a product leader and seasoned technologist with comprehensive experience in enabling innovation through technology and deriving value through productization and new service offerings. He has over 16 years of industry experience in building enterprise and internet software and services, high-performance applications and enterprise scale cloud services (SaaS), with special focus on energy and utilities and smart cities. At Fluentgrid, he helps to build world-class products and solutions that customers love and value.

VP – Product Management

Fluentgrid

Kunal Chowdhury

A renowned public speaker, active blogger(by passion) and a software engineer by proffession - Kunal has been a Microsoft MVP for over 7 years, covering topics from Microsoft Silverlight to Windows App Development. As a technical buff, Kunal has in-depth knowledge of OOPs, C#, XAML, .NET, WPF, UWP, Visual Studio, Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure. He is also proficient in the entire SDLC and Scrum methodology. He has written many articles, tips and tricks on his technical blog for developers and consumers.

Microsoft MVP

Mayur Tendulkar

Based out of Pune, Mayur is a Program Manager within the Xamarin Team at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, since 2013, he was awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Windows Development and worked as a Developer Evangelist with Xamarin. He has been writing mobile applications since the days of Windows Mobile 5.0 and loves to talk about everything mobile. You can find him talking at conferences, user groups and on various social channels.

Program Manager

Microsoft

Surya Viswanath Perala

An engineering student with lot of passion towards technology is how we can address Surya Vishwanath, he stands unique for his problem solving skills and also loves taking up new challenges and competing with the growing technology needs in our day to day life. Catch him at the event to share your views with him on Machine Learning.

Student

Vignan Engineering College

Sudharshan Govindan

Sudharshan has over 16 years of experience in IT with expertise in Business Analysis, Software Design and Development, Testing, Quality Assurance, Deployment, Release and Production Support of J2EE based enterprise wide applications. His current focus is in specializing Cloud platform, DevOps, Microservices, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Watson APIs, Java, API Connect, JavaScript and IBM Cloud. He represents IBM in various forums as Speaker / Panelist / Mentor. He attends various Hackathons, Developer meetups, Tech Events in advocating Developers / Startups to adopt IBM Cloud and Watson services.

Developer Advocate

IBM

Yuktesh Chintamadaka

Yuktesh Chintamadaka has been with IBM for the last 7 years, and is currently responsible for IBM's Developer Eco System Team in the capacity of a Developer Advocate. He has conducted many IBM led meetups, and has been an active participant as speaker in various 3rd party engagements. He actively works with the start up community on influencing the adoption of IBM technologies around Cloud and Cognitive. Prior to this engagement, he has worked full time with the academic initiative to help various universities to embrace IBM Bluemix in their respective curriculum.

Developer Advocate

IBM

Venkata Nagesh

With vast experience across all layers of Infrastructure, Compute, Network, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud and Container technologies - Nagesh is a Principal Architect with Pi Data Centers. He is also the only winner of the Docker Birthday Global app challenge from India.